Letter to the editor: GOP must end their economic terrorism

It should now be crystal clear to everyone that the Republican tea party members of the Congress are the most destructive force in America today. The Senate has passed a clean budget bill that accepts the House Republican targets. The House attached provisions related to Obamacare are totally irrelevant to the budget. The funding of Obamacare is independent of the budget legislation.

What is so maddening is that most everything the Republican Party says about Obamacare is false. For example, tea party members of Congress refer to health care reform as socialism. Doctors, nurse, and other health care providers are not going to be government employees. Health insurance options offered through the exchanges will be from private companies. So, how can Obamacare be a socialist plot?

Also, Republicans claim Obamacare will cost jobs. Recently, I completed a study of the job-creation performances since the last recession for all states and the District of Columbia. To my surprise, Massachusetts had one of the best job-creation performances over the past five years. If universal health care is such an economic disaster, how can the one state with universal health care be creating so many jobs?

Another false claim is that Obamacare will cause health care cost to skyrocket. This year, health care costs will likely increase by less than 4 percent, the lowest rate of growth in years.

It is time for Speaker Boehner and the Republican members of the House to end their political and economic terrorism.

- Mike Lipsman, West Des Moines

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Letter to the editor: GOP must end their economic terrorism

It should now be crystal clear to everyone that the Republican tea party members of the Congress are the most destructive force in America today. The Senate has passed a clean budget bill that